Dr. Smith'/ Obfervations on the Brittjh Species of Brotnm. 



This fpecies is not very common. It may cafily be known by its 

 broad oval comprefTed ipikes, each conilfting of not more than 10 

 or 12 cylindrical rather remote florets, almoft alwavs fmooth, and 

 drooping as they ripen from the length -of their foot-ftalks, which 

 are for the moft part. quite fimple. 



2. Bromus multiflorus. 

 Doivny Rye Bromc-grajs. 



B. panicull.patente ; pedunculis fubfjmplicibus, fpiculis ovato- 



lanceolatis compreflis quindecimfloris , flofculis fubimbricati? 



teretiufculis. 

 Bromus multiflorus. H'eigel Obf. Sj /. I. f. i. Gmel. Syjl. Nat. 



Linn. 1 88. 

 B. fecaiinus. Leers 36. t. 11.7C 2. Lightf. 1086. Linn. FL Suec. 



ecL 2. 96. var. 2. <M*K^N0&K&mJ&tei*n 

 Feftuca graminea, glumis hirfutis. Jgauh. "Theatr. 143. Scheucbz. 



Jgr. 250. 7. 5./. 9. 



In arvis rarius. DHL in R. Syn. 414. FL Julio. 



Near Norwich. 'Mifs Hancock. Between Edinburgh and New- 

 haven. 



Habitus prazcedentis. Cuhnus glaber. Folia in fedora lubtus nuda, 

 fupra ad margincs fubpilola; fuperiora fubtus brevi lanugiue 

 pubefcentia, fupra pilofa ; omnia margine fcabra. Vagina glabra. 

 Stipula breviflima, lacera, vix pilofa. Panicula ut. in priorc. 

 Spicule unciales, ovato-lanccolata:, comprefib-planGe, flofculis 12 

 ad 16, imbricatis, demum fubrcmotis. Ghtmcc omnes plerumque 

 moliiflime pubefcentes, rarius glabra*. 



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